A Syrian woman and her two young sons who drowned on a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece were buried in their hometown of Kobani, returning to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

PALESTINIAN militants set off a huge explosion at an Israeli army outpost in the Gaza Strip yesterday, causing a concrete building to collapse.

FURIOUS Palestinians called for swift revenge attacks as they paid their last respects to seven militants, including three senior commanders, shot dead by Israeli troops in Nablus.